Litigation in Londongrad

The UK Commercial Court has ruled in the high-profile Berezovsky v Abramovich litigation between Russian...

Despite the fact that Moscow’s population dwarfs that of London, it is the British capital that Russia’s contemporary elite nowadays refer to as the “big smoke.”

London’s football clubs, mansions and Thames-side yacht-moorings are increasingly coming under Russian ownership – so much so that Donald Rayfield, an English professor of Russian literature, famously refers to the city as ‘Londongrad.’

The steady influx of Roubles has handed recession-hit realtors and luxury goods salesmen a lifeline, but the lawyers of Londongrad have perhaps fared best from the oligarchic migration.

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